The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22

weight of beef of which 59,572 hundredweight
came from the United States. The imports of
mutton in the same month were 1850 hundred
weight, of which none came from this country,
but AZ, S31 hundredweight from New Zealand,
and II ,961 hundredweight from the Argentine
Republic. OF 116, 836 hundredweight of butter,
the United States furnished only 2,6V hundred
weight.
One of Boston's queer characters is a man
who can't for the life of him talk correctly, and
who often acts very much as he talks-queerly.
When he talked about the last big yacht race he
spoke of the voluntary" and the ''FizZle." He
left his Office the other day, having first put out
this sign: Been gone ten minutes" Once, out
cunning with friend, he came to a creek. His
friend persuaded him to try and jump 1t. He
tried, landed Squarely in the middle of the
brook, whence he shouted: you knew l
couldn't do it. knew couldn't do it,
WALTER LONG, a Conservative member of
Parliament, proposed that a delegation of Lib
erals should go for forty-eight hours trip to
villages in the west of Ireland, and expe rience
little of the tyranny Of the league. He guar
anteed that they would come back Conserva-
tives and coercionists. He was thereupon chal-
lenged by J. W. Phillips to let the Liberals
choose delegation and make the trip, and If
they came back coercionists the challenger
agreed to bear all the expenses of the journey,
while If they came back home rulers the trip
should be paid for by Mr.. Long, NJ. 2. The
challenge was not accepted.
THE Prince Regent of Bavaria is reported to
have been recently bitten in the hand by dog
which was supposed to be mad. Should the
popular fears on the subject be realized the
matter will become somewhat serious for
Bavaria. What with King who is mad as
March hare, and who imagneS himself to be u
bird, Tapping his arms in lieu of wings and col
lecting sticks and straws to build nest son the
one hand, and Regent suffering from hydro
phobia and barking like dog on the other, the
I0lNsw
ficulty in transactng the necessary business of
State with the ruler than during the reign of
mad King Ludwig, or that of his predecessor
who married Lola Montez.
AFTER Gambettas death surprise was ex-
pressed at the fact that his brain was found to
weigh only LOO grammes, while the normal
weight of a mans brain is 400 This seemed
to conflict with the general experience that
great men have abnOrmally heavy brains. But
DIR. Duval points out that Gambetta : brain was
not weighed at once, but after it had lost some
of its weight through desiccation. He estimates
that its real weight was / ,241 grammes Besides,
it must be borne in mind that anatomists esti-
mate intelligence not so much by the absolute
weight of the brain as by the number and ex
tent of the cerebral burrows and conyolutions,
which multiply the number of gray cells that
constitute the centres of Intelligence. The part
of the brain which presidess over speech was es
pecially developed in Gsmbetta's case.
A RUSSIAN jew who had been divorced from
his wife left his home forty years ago and emf
grated to the United States, leaving his two
children with their mother He settled down in
New York and married there lady with little
money, enough to start him in the fishery bust
ness in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. At his
death, four years ago, be left large fortune to
his second wife and her three children. His
first wife died two years ago, and her two chill
dren, who were now grown up and married,
emigrated to Canada and settled down. one in
Montreal and the other in Quebec. Hearing a
few days ago of their fathers death. they insti-
tuted an action to recover the fortune left Nby
him, alleging that their mother had persistently
refused to sign certain papers which were nee
essary to make the divorce valid according to
the Hebrew law.
A CAREFUL ESTIMATE made by an English
chemist of the contents or constituents, of a
ton of coal presents some interesting facts not
familiar certainly to unscientific minds 1t is
found that, besides gas, a ton Of ordinary gas
coal will yield 800 pounds of coke, 20 gallons
of ammonia water and 40 pounds of coal tar
Now, destructive distillation of this amount of
coal tar gives about 20 pounds of pitch, II
pounds of creoSote, IA pounds of heavy oils
about 9]e pounds of naphtha yellow, 6 $40
pounds Of naphthaline, 4A pounds of naphthol
2.15 pounds of aliZarine, "a pounds of solvent
naphtha, is pounds of phenol. 1.2 pounds of
aurne, IL pounds of anilile, OFT pound of tolu-
dine, 0 As pound of anthracine and 09 pound of
toluene-trom the last named substance being
obtained the new product saccharine said TO be
230 times as sweet as the best cane sugar
AN ENGLISH UNDERTAKEN was arraigned in
court for having created an unseemly disturb
ance at a funeral in the chapel in Croydon
Cemetery. The clergyman who was officiating
Swore that the undertakerN,ame into the huiId
was up In a short time the undertaken returned
and when the clergyman said. Il will conclude
with prayer" he CALCULATED well, let it be
short one then l''and finally said, II won't wait
another minutel" and talked of throwing the
minister out. The undertakers story was that
he was in charge of the funeral that was to fol-
low the one alleged to have been interrupted,
and that the clergyman took an Internationally
long time about his sermon, so that the under
takers engagements for the whole day were
being put out. He affirmed that he had only
courteously insisted that the clergyman was
taking up great deal more time than belonged
to him, and was discommoding other persons
The undertaken was fined. nevertheless
SOME INVESTIGATIONS made by German chem.
lists, in regard to the injury to fish by sewage
and waste waters, show that the chloride of
lime, in the proportion of o. to 0.005 per cent.
has an immediate deadly action upon tench.
while trout and salmon perish in presence
OF O.OOOS per cent of chlorine. Sulphuious acid
has the same action as chlorine, and is still
more hurtful II another acid is simultaneously
present; sulphites are harmless. HydrochloTic
acid, per cent, kills tench and trout. In sui
phuric acid of o. per cent front turned ON THAR
affected in eighteen hours. Tannin at OIL per
cent. is harmless: ammonia exerts no action at
OOl per cent. Soda at / per cent. Is fatal to
trout on prolonged exposure. Manganese
chloride at per cent. had no action on tench In
twenty -four hours. and q trout sustained Der
cent. for five hours. Iron acts as a specific
poison upon fishes, but only in the state of a
ferrous salt. Alum has the same injurious ac.
ton as the salts Of ron and the solution of
caustic lime has an exceedingly violent action
upon fishes.
BARON VoRwARTs has near Stavenhagen, in
an estate of about 5000 acres 1t
IS chiefly devoted TO wheat and beetroot. and is
worked by its owner on form of cooperation:
and although the times are bad he is still able |
% make good profit on the capital value of |
MS estate. He is his own farmer He pays very |
small wages in money, but the laborer is pro. |
Tided with house, supply of corn a piece of |
grazing land, the means of education and other |
Advantages which enable him to live in comfort |
| he Baron is content with per cent interest as
iis own share; and once in ten years he divides |
ne remainder OF the profits in equitable proper
ions among the peasantry. At the last division |
Nhlch took place In 1884, as much as 500 TO |
ESQ fell to the share of a single family This |
excellent landlord lives among his people and |
las so completely identified himself with their
Nell-Deing that the peasants do not speak of |
the Barons wheat or horses" but of our
wheat and Our horses" The Baron believes
nat so FAR as agriculture Is concerned he has |
discovered the of ha.t al, a..